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MR. ODA: No, I 'm not saying that the commission <br /> has no authority to draft anything with regard to expenditure of <br /> funds. Certainly, that is within the jurisdiction of the <br /> commission. <br /> MR. KORNBERG: Thank you. <br /> CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Thank you very much. Next, <br /> J. William Raiser? Please correct me if I pronounce your name <br /> wrong. <br /> MR. RAISER: William Raiser. I am a resident <br /> of Keauhou. I ' d like to say in brevity that I 'm in full <br /> agreement with what has been brought before you this evening <br /> about the one-man , one person rule, that is the nine districts <br /> and nine commissioners, and to be elected from their own <br /> districts , not at-large. <br /> I would also like to bring a point that Dr. <br /> Boshard brought up about representation of the people of West <br /> Hawaii in-our offices in Hilo. I think that it wouldn ' t be <br /> difficult here this evening to approach a few people in the <br /> area and ask them in their residence building or their <br /> commercial buildings if they have run into any problems' In <br /> getting questions toward construction permits and having to go <br /> to Hilo to get these questions answered properly. By using <br /> the representation that Dr. Boshard mentioned in West Hawaii , <br /> even a satellite office, I would say that ten people who have <br /> the same question could get to one office locally and impress <br /> a person there a lot easier than trying to have ten of them <br /> driving to Hilo at any one specific time and trying to find a <br /> person in the office to whom they could talk and give them an <br /> answer. One man could take ten representative questions to <br /> Hilo and bring the answers back a lot easier than ten people <br /> can do going from here to Hilo. And I make this point as some <br /> of the members of the commission brought up for us as the <br /> reason behind the satellite office. I think this would save a <br /> lot of money. Taxpayers private money in transportation and <br /> a lot of problems that we have over here. Otherwise I will <br /> leave my remarks to brevity and they have been covered Very well <br /> by the West Hawaii Committee and others who have spoken here <br /> this evening. <br /> I ' ll leave it to the questions to me from the <br /> commission. <br /> CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Thank you very much. <br /> Next we will have William Knutson. <br /> MR. KNUTSON : Mr. Chairman and members of the <br /> commission. I think all of you tonight have heard a lot of <br /> good talks about the changes that were recommended in the paper <br /> and I am for all of them. I believe there is one that a lot of <br /> us in West Hawaii are concerned about. It has to do with the <br /> commissions. One of the proposals is that the planning <br /> commission is to have a chairman and a vice-chairman and will <br /> be composed of two commission bodies. One commission is to <br /> consist'-of residents from and represent East Hawaii . The second <br /> • <br /> -21- <br />